Joseph Napoléon (Buonaparte) Bonaparte (1768 - 1844)

Born 7 Jan 1768 in Corte, Corse, France [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Julie (Clary) Bonaparte — married 1 Aug 1794 in Cuges-les-Pins, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Descendants

Died 28 Jul 1844 at age 76 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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Biography

Joseph Buonaparte was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Giuseppe Buonaparte , was born in 1768. He passed away in 1844. He was the king of Naples and Spain , and the older brother of Napoleon I of France.

Rediscovering Joseph Bonaparte's Point Breeze Estate[1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nvlhe1QF0c

• After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, British forces sentenced former emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to live out the rest of his days—most of which were spent in poor health—on a remote island in the South Atlantic. Comparatively, Napoleon’s older brother Joseph had an easier time in exile. After the French emperor’s downfall, the elder Bonaparte, who’d briefly served as king of Spain and Naples, headed to the United States, where he lived first for several years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, later residing on a bluff overlooking the Delaware River in Bordentown, New Jersey on and off at a property dubbed Point Breeze, spending the remainder of his adult years in resplendent luxury. In 1806, Napoleon issued an imperial decree making his brother king of Naples. Two years later, during the Peninsular War, the French emperor forced Spain’s king, Ferdinand VII, to abdicate and appointed the elder Bonaparte in the Bourbon monarch’s place. The new king ruled Spain as José I until 1813, when he returned home to France. “Swan boats glided on the half-mile-long lake [Bonaparte] created,” reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Tulip poplars rose skyward from a carefully curated ‘picturesque’ landscape that he designed and whose style he helped popularize.” At the heart of the estate stood a palatial three-story mansion—the largest building in America save for the White House. There, Bonaparte displayed his extensive collection of fine art and allowed townspeople to take tours of his library, which held more volumes than the Library of Congress, making it the biggest collection in the country at the time. In 1838, Bonaparte left Point Breeze for the final time. He suffered a serious stroke in 1840 and died four years later, at the age of 76, in Florence, Italy. After his death, the New Jersey estate changed hands several times; most of its Bonaparte-era buildings were torn down. “He literally employed hundreds of workers from Bordentown and the surrounding areas and paid them a very fair wage. And he spent roughly 20 years in Bordentown, most of his adult life.” Per the Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper, D&R Greenway is now working to restore the gardener’s house—the only extant structure dating to Bonaparte’s time in residence. The group also plans to replicate the many vegetable gardens that flourished in the former king’s lifetime. “Point Breeze was a big estate on America’s highway between New York and Philadelphia, and everyone saw it and commented on it,” Veit says. The Author is: Nora McGreevy a daily correspondent for Smithsonian.

King of Naples and Sicily 1806–1808

King of Spain 1808–1813

Birth

"Joseph Nabulion Bonaparte" (sic) was born at Corte on 7 January 1768 and baptized the following day, according to his biographer Thierry Lentz.^[1] The parish registers for the town of Corte are not available on line before 1802. Joseph Bonaparte's baptism record could not be checked. 10:01, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

First marriage

Joseph (no other given name) Bounaparte (sic), age 25, born in Ajaccio, currently living at Hotel Brutus in Marseille, son of the late Charles Bounaparte, who died in Montpellier in 1785, and still living Marie Ramolini (sic), 45 years old, currenrly living in Nice, married Marie Julie Clary, 22, on 14 Thermidor year II (1 August 1794) in Cuges-les-Pins.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Contributeurs de Wikipédia, "Joseph Bonaparte," Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Bonaparte&oldid=200852404 (Page consultée le 29 mars 2023).
2. ↑ Acte de mariage: Mariages 1794/an II Cuges-les-Pins, Archives des Bouches-du-Rhône, vues 10-11 https://www.archives13.fr/ark:/40700/vta71ce59b76aa42f68/daogrp/0/10

See also:

• WIkipedia:Joseph_Bonaparte
• 1820 census
• Joseph Bonaparte on Find A Grave: Memorial #1351 Retrieved Sälgö-1 01:15, 5 October 2016 (EDT).
• This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q7726, en:Wikipedia
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/former-king-spain-once-dwelled-new-jersey-now-his-estate-will-become-public-park-180977289/